Check-rein holder



(No ModeL) J. LAWRIE.

GHEOK REIN EOLDER.

No. 333,528. Patented Jan. 5; 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JEFFERSON LAWRIE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CHECK-REIN HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 333,528, dated January5, .1886. Application filed October 19,1885. Serial No. 180,334. (Nomodel.)

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JEFFERSON LAWRIE, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Check-Rein Holders; and I do hereby declare thesame to be described in the following specification and represented inthe accompanying drawings, of which Figure l is a side view, and Fig. 2a horizontal section, of the check-rein holder of my invention, thenature of which is defined in the claims, hereinafter presented.

In common parlance such a holder is usually termed a water-hook, itbeing affixed to the saddle of a harness for the purpose of hitching acheck-rein extending f1 om the headstall.

1n the said drawings, A denotes a ring or elliptical eye having extendedfrom ita pointed cylindrical shank, a, provided at its middle with ashoulder, b. There is a groove, 0, in such shank just in rear of itspoint d. and extending around the shank. The said shank extends endwiseinto asocketed head, B, having pivoted to it two lever-catches, OO,which, arranged in it as represented, have between their outer arms,and disposed transversely through the head B, a spiral spring, D. Thefulcra of the levers are shown at c 6. Each lever is provided with anear or projectiomf, to enter the groove c. On pressing the shank of theeye into the mouth 9 of the head and against the earsff the catches willbe sepa rated until the shoulder 12 may bring up against the head. Onsuch taking place, the spring will cause the catches to engage with theshank, so as to hold the eye in connection with the head. From the heada hook, G, extends in manner as shown, such hook serving not only as anornament, but as a means of hitching the check-rein to the head,whensuch may be desirable. The head, like the common water hook, has aprismatic shank, h, extending down from its base is and terminating in ascrew, t, such being for fixing the head to a harness-saddle.

To use the described rein-holder, the check rein is to be run endwi'sethrough the eye A. On forcing the shank of the eye into the head B, thetwo will be coupled to each other. To release the check-rein from itsengagement with the said head, the outer arms of the catch-levers are tobe moved simultaneously toward each other by the thumb and finger of thehand of a person applied to them.

In practice the eye A will remain on the check-rein. The shank of theeye can readily turn in the mouth of the head, to adapt itself to thecheck-rein. Vltll the shanked eye and the catches of the head it is, fora horse, much easier to connect the check-rein to the saddle than bymeans of a common water-hook, as with the latter the head of the horsehas to be drawn back forcibly and farther in order to hitch the reinupon the book.

In case of breakage of or loss of the eye, or accidental breakage orwear of its connections with the head, the hook G may be used to connectthe rein with the saddle.

I claim 1. A check-rein holder consisting of the shanked eye A and ofthe socketed head B, having not only means of connecting the latter witha harness-saddle, but one or more catches, substantially as described,to engage with shank of the eye, as set forth.

2. The check-rein holder consisting of the eye A, its shank a, grooved,pointed, and pro vided with a shoulder, as described, the socketed headB, the two lever-catches O 0, their operating-spring D, and thefastening screwthreaded shank 11, all being arranged substantially inmanner to operate as and for the purpose as set forth.

3. The combination of the eye provided with the shankwith the head to beapplied to a harness-saddle, and socketed to receive the said shank, andalso with means or mechanism for holding the shank of the eye inengagement with the head, and for disconnecting them, substantially asset forth.

JEFFERSON LAWRIE.

Witnesses:

It. H. EDDY, R. B. TORREY.

